Apple hardware Q4 and 2014

[Bill Davis]

[Oliver Peters] “The bottom line is that MS and Apple operated from essentially the same approach. MS said to the manufacturers that if you wanted DOS or Windows you had to set up a bundling/licensing arrangement. Apple told consumers that if you wanted Mac OS, you had to buy Apple hardware (or licensed clones for awhile). Fundamentally the two flip sides of the same coin.”

I don’t think so.

It’s one thing for ONE competitive manufacturer to sell a “bundled solution” forcing each customer to decide whether or not they wish to buy in to their entire ecosystem.

It’s quite another to essentially tell ALL hardware manufacturers – across an entire industry – that the only way you’ll sell them a popular OS is if they license it for every box they sell regardless of whether or not the customer want’s it installed.

I think those are VERY different business approaches.

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[Chris Harlan]

[Walter Soyka] “I think you’re thinking of GEM — Graphical Environment Manager [link]. That takes me back!
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Dang. I remember GEM.